IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Matfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963KS017001
  • User Pedon ID: 63KS017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1852
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36010
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.1613884
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5747223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 4200 feet E and 850 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Chase County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS017—Chase

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.L. Penner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    81

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    13

    26

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    1A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14766. 18425; angular chert from 6 mm to 6 cm in longest dimension comprises 15% of soil mass.; many fine roots
    1A12—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 30 percent fine worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14767. 18426; angular chert averaging about 6 cm in longest dimension comprises about 75% of soil mass.; many fine worm casts concentrations; many fine roots
    1A13—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 30 percent fine worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14768. 18427; chert content as in A12 horizon.; many fine worm casts concentrations; many fine roots
    1A21—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 tubular pores; 30 percent fine worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14769. 18428; chert content as in A12 horizon; few voids up to 12 mm in diameter.; many fine worm casts concentrations; common fine roots
    1A22—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14770. 18429; angular chert fragments comprise about 80% of soil mass; very porous.; few fine roots
    1B2t—107 to 157 centimeters (42.1 to 61.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; moderate fine blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14771. 18430; angular chert fragments averaging about 13 cm in longest dimension comprise about 75% of soil mass.
    1R—157 centimeters (61.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14772. Cherty limestone with common vertical fractures containing clay as that of B2t horizon.